nevdull

About:Gian is a computational biologist and is the Managing Director at Open Design Strategies, LLC. He holds a BA in Molecular/Cellular Biology and an MS in Computer Science. He has a collection of 8-bit microcontrollers and a room full of computer junk that he believes talks to him. He is a sympathizer with the Robot Overlords and is adroitly maneuvering himself to be in a comfortable position when the AVR global domination begins. He is also scared of zombies.

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I recently thought about buying a msr009 card reader with just the 3mm maghead reads 3 tracks but my question is say for example I was reading an atm card would a device that only reads 2 tracks work also and does the magnetic strip have to actually touch the maghead to read or will it read by simply passing through some type of magnetic field created by the maghead